Coalitions: Alliance
for a Dynamic Democracy (ADD) [Contested the 2007 National Assembly Election] Member parties include the Renaissance Party
of Benin (RB), African Movement for Democracy and Progress (MADEP), Social Democratic Party (PSD), Democratic Rally for Development
(RDD-Nassara), and the Union of Democratic Forces (UFD); National Party for Democracy and Development-Democratic
Renewal Party (PNDD-PRD) [Contested the 1991 National Assembly Election]; Social Democratic Party-National Union for
Solidarity and Progress (PSD-UNSP) [Contested the 1991 National Assembly Election]; National Movement for Democracy
and Development-Movement for Solidarity, Union, and Progress-Union for Democracy and National Reconstruction (MNDD-MSUP-UDRN)
[Contested the 1991 National Assembly Election]; Alliance for Social Democracy-Bloc for Social Democracy (ASD-BSD)
[Contested the 1991 National Assembly Election]; Alliance for Democracy and Progress-Democratic Union for Social Renewal
(ADP-UDRS) [Contested the 1991 National Assembly Election]; Popular Republican Union-National Labor Party (URP-PNT)
[Contested the 1991 National Assembly Election]; Minor political parties supporting President Nicéphore Soglo [Contested
the 1995 National Assembly Election] Member parties include the African Rally for Progress and Solidarity (RAPS), Alliance
for Social Democracy (ASD), National Movement for Democracy and Development (MNDD), National Union for Solidarity and Progress
(UNSP), New Generation (NG), and Union for Democracy and National Solidarity (UDSN); Star Alliance (Alliance Étoile)
[Contested the 1999 and 2003 National Assembly Elections] Builders and Managers of Freedom and Democracy (BGLD),
The Greens (Les Verts), and the Union for Democracy and National Solidarity (UDSN); Presidential Movement (MP) [Contested
the 2003 National Assembly Election] Member parties include the Union for the Benin of the Future (UBF), African Movement
for Democracy and Progress (MADEP), Key Force (FC), Movement for Development by the Culture-Salute Party-Congress of People
for Progress Alliance (Alliance MDC-PS-CPP), Impulse for Progress and Democracy (IPD), Alliance of Progress Forces (AFP),
Movement for Development and Solidarity (MDS), and Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP); Movement for Development by
the Culture-Salute Party-Congress of People for Progress Alliance (Alliance MDC-PS-CPP) [Contested the 2003 National Assembly
Election as part of the Presidential Movement (MP)]; New Benin Alliance (ABN) [Contested the 2006 Presidential
Election] A coalition of political parties that supported Bruno Amoussou's candidacy; Union for the Triumph of Democratic Renewal (UTRD) [Contested the 1991
Presidential and National Assembly Elections] A coalition of political parties that supported Nicéphore Soglo; Union
Makes the Nation (UN) [Contested the 2011 Presidential and National Assembly Elections] Member parties include the Democratic
Renewal Party (PRD), Social Democratic Party (PSD), Renaissance Party of Benin (RB), Key Force (FC), and the African Movement
for Democracy and Progress (MADEP).

*After the election, the Republican Party of Dahomey (PRD) and the
Dahomeyan Democratic Union (UDD) agreed to divide the seats of one constituency. The resulting final composition was PRD -
28, UDD - 20, and the RDD - 22.

*The electoral law prescribed the direct election of President
and Vice President as the top candidates of the party-list winning the National Assembly elections by a plurality. A month
prior to the election, the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally (RDD) of Hubert Maga and the Dahomey Nationalist Party (PND) of Sourou-Migan
Apithy merged to form the Dahomeyan Unity Party (PDU). As heads of winning party-list, Maga was elected President and Apithy
Vice-President.

5 January 1964 Constitutional Referendum

Main Points: Presidential System of Government, No Presidential
Term Limits, Unicameral Legislature

Registered Voters

1,051,614

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

968,229 (92.1%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

619

Total Valid Votes

967,610

Results

Number of
Votes

% of Votes

"Yes" Votes

966,292

99.86%

"No" Votes

1,318

0.14%

19 January 1964 Presidential & National Assembly Election

Registered Voters

1,055,910

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

Not Available (N/A)

Invalid/Blank Votes

Not Available

Total Valid Votes

995,929

Party

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Number of Seats (42)

Dahomeyan Democratic Party (PDD)

995,929

100.00%

42

*The electoral law prescribed the direct election of President and
Vice President as the top candidates of the party-list winning the National Assembly elections by a plurality. As heads of Dahomeyan
Democratic Party's (PDD) list, Sourou-Migan Apithy was elected President and Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin Vice-President
(and Head of Government).

31 March 1968 Constitutional Referendum

Main Points: Presidential System of Government, Unicameral Legislature,
No Presidential Term Limits

Registered Voters

1,126,155

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

922,050 (82.6%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

3,221

Total Valid Votes

918,829

Results

Number of
Votes

% of Votes

"Yes" Votes

847,212

92.20%

"No" Votes

71,617

7.80%

5 May 1968 Presidential Election*

Registered Voters

1,138,388

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

295,667 (26.0%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

8,275

Total Valid Votes

287,392

Candidate

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Basile Adjou

241,273

83.95%

Urbain Karim da Silva

19,319

6.72%

Eustache Prudencio

11,359

3.95%

Paul Hazoumé

11,091

3.86%

Jean-Baptiste Vierin

4,350

1.51%

*Due to low voter turnout, the election was annulled by the
military government.

28 July 1968 Presidential Plebiscite*

Main Points: Endorsement of Émile Derlin Zinsou as president.

Registered Voters

1,140,378

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

828,076 (72.6%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

3,269

Total Valid Votes

824,807

Results

Number of
Votes

% of Votes

"Yes" Votes

630,018

73.68%

"No" Votes

194,789

26.32%

*Following the annulled election of 5 May 1968, the
military authorities appointed Émile Derlin Zinsou President. He accepted under the condition that a plebiscite be held
on the issue.

*The election was held in five of the six provinces at four-day intervals beginning on 9 March 1970. The sixth province,
Atakora, was scheduled to vote on 29 March, but the military government postponed and later annulled the election under the
pretext of growing political violence and electoral irregularities.

Single Party Elections

Sole Legal Party: Benin People's Revolutionary Party (PRPB)

20 November 1979 National Revolutionary Assembly Election (336 Seats)

Registered Voters

1,582,910

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

1,275,461 (80.6%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

5,410

Total Valid Votes

1,270,051

"Yes" Votes

1,248,613 (98.31%)

"No" Votes

21,438 (1.69%)

10 June 1984 National Revolutionary Assembly Election (196 Seats)

Registered Voters

1,987,173

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

1,851,044 (93.1%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

5,119

Total Valid Votes

1,845,925

“Yes” Votes

1,811,808 (98.15%)

“No” Votes

27,720 (1.50%)

Abstentions

6,397 (0.35%)

18 June 1989 National Revolutionary Assembly Election (206 Seats)

Registered Voters

2,200,815

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

Not Available (N/A)

Invalid/Blank Votes

Not Available

Total Valid Votes

1,892,701

“Yes” Votes

1,695,860 (89.60%)

“No” Votes

164,665 (8.70%)

Abstentions

32,176 (1.70%)

Note: Mathieu Kérékou was elected President without
opposition by the National Revolutionary Assembly on 6 February 1980. He was re-elected on 31 July 1984 and 2 August 1989.

2 December 1990 Constitutional Referendum*

Main Points: Multiparty System, Presidential Age Limits

Registered Voters

2,052,105

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

1,304,870 (63.6%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

40,229

Total Valid Votes

1,264,641

Results

Number of Votes

% of Votes

"Yes" Votes

1,178,924

93.22%

Age Limits

(926,860)

73.29%

No Age Limits

(252,064)

19.93%

"No" Votes

85,717

6.78%

*Voters were ask to choose between two versions of the Constitution,
one of which incorporated a clause stipulating upper and lower age-limits for presidential candidates.

17 February 1991 National Assembly Election

Registered Voters

2,069,343

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

1,069,367 (51.7%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

39,350

Total Valid Votes

1,030,017

Party/[Coalition]

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Number of Seats (64)

Union for the Triumph of Democratic Renewal
[UTRD]

194,213

18.86%

12

National Party for Democracy and Development-Democratic
Renewal Party [PNDD-PRD]

120,705

11.72%

9

Social Democratic Party-National Union for
Solidarity and Progress [PSD-UNSP]

101,348

9.84%

8

National Rally for Democracy (RND)

124,392

12.08%

7

Our Common Cause (NCC)

104,347

10.13%

6

National Movement for Democracy and Development-Movement
for Solidarity, Union, and Progress-Union for Democracy and National Reconstruction [MNDD-MSUP-UDRN]

86,556

8.40%

6

Union for Democracy and National Solidarity
(UDS)

72,899

7.08%

5

Rally of Liberal Democrats for National
Reconstruction-Vivoten (RDL-Vivoten)

57,852

5.62%

4

Alliance for Social Democracy-Bloc for Social
Democracy [ASD-BSD]

35,700

3.47%

3

Alliance for Democracy and Progress-Democratic
Union for Social Renewal [ADP-UDRS]

38,684

3.76%

2

National Union for Democracy and Progress
(UNDP)

31,601

3.07%

1

Popular Republican Union-National Labor
Party [URP-PNT]

20,490

1.99%

1

Democratic Union for Social and Economic
Development (UDES)

25,893

2.51%

-

Builders and Managers of Freedom and Development
(BGLD)

15,337

1.49%

-

March 1991 Presidential Election

First Round (10 March 1991)*

Registered Voters

2,064,311

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

1,162,515 (56.3%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

18,902

Total Valid Votes

1,143,613

Second Round (24 March 1991)

Registered Voters

2,050,000 (approx.)

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

Not Available (approx. 64%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

Not Available

Total Valid Votes

1,290,047

Candidate (Party)
[Coalition]

First Round

Second Round

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Nicéphore Soglo [UTRD]

415,262

36.31%

873,790

67.73%

Mathieu Kérékou

310,978

27.19%

416,257

32.27%

Albert Tévoédjré (NCC)

162,498

14.21%

-

-

Bruno Amoussou (PSD)

65,999

5.77%

-

-

Adrien Houngbédji (PRD)

51,888

4.54%

-

-

Moise Mensah

39,250

3.43%

-

-

Sévérin Adjovi (RDL-Vivoten)

29,854

2.61%

-

-

Bertin Borna

18,484

1.62%

-

-

Idelphonse Lemon

11,297

0.99%

-

-

Assani Fassassi

10,334

0.90%

-

-

Gatien Houngbédji (UDES)

10,210

0.89%

-

-

Robert Dossou (ASD)

9,551

0.84%

-

-

Thomas Goudou (BGLD)

8,008

0.70%

-

-

*There are conflicting figures regarding this election, but the results that appear in the
table above are the most reliable. A side-by-side comparison of the differing results can be found here.

28 March 1995 National Assembly Election*

Registered Voters

2,536,234

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

1,922,553 (75.8%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

43,361

Total Valid Votes

1,876,192

Party/[Coalition]

Number of Seats (83)

Renaissance Party of Benin (PRB)

21

Presidential Tendency**

11

Union for Democracy and National Solidarity (UDS)

5

New Generation [NG]

2

Alliance for Social Democracy (ASD)

1

National Movement for Democracy and Development (MNDD)

1

African Rally for Progress and Solidarity (RAP)

1

National Union for Democracy and Progress (UNDP)

1

Democratic Renewal Party (PRD)

19

Action Front for Renewal and Development
(FARD-Alafia)

10

Social Democratic Party (PSD)

8

Rally of Liberal Democrats for
National Reconstruction-Vivoten (RDL-Vivoten)

3

Our Common Cause (NCC)

3

Impulse for Progress and Democracy
[IPD]

3

Communist Party of Benin (PCB)

1

Alliance for Democracy and Development
(ADD)

1

Alliance for Democracy and Progress
(ADP)

1

Chameleon Alliance [AC]

1

Rally for Democracy and Progress
(RDP)

1

*The Constitutional Court invalidated results affecting 13 seats
due to multiple irregularities. Partial elections were held on 28 May 1995 to fill those seats.

**The Presidential Tendency was not a formal coalition. It was,
instead, a grouping of parties that supported President Soglo.

Rally for Progress and Renewal-National
Union for Solidarity and Development [RPR-UNSD]

1

March 2001 Presidential Election

First Round (4 March 2001)

Registered Voters

3,034,471

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

2,662,595 (87.7%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

181,066

Total Valid Votes

2,481,529

Second Round (18 March 2001)

Registered Voters

3,152,365

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

1,707,604 (54.2%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

173,809

Total Valid Votes

1,533,795

Candidate (Party)

First Round

Second Round

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Mathieu Kérékou (FARD-Alafia)

1,127,100

45.42%

1,282,855

83.64%

Nicéphore Soglo (RB)

672,927

27.12%

*

Adrien Houngbédji (PRD)

313,186

12.62%

*

Bruno Amoussou (PSD)

213,136

8.59%

250,940

16.36%

Sacca Lafia (UDS)

29,656

1.20%

-

-

François-Xavier Loko

16,656

0.67%

-

-

Soulé Dankoro (PDB)

15,614

0.63%

-

-

Adébayo Abimbola (RND)

15,251

0.61%

-

-

Wallis Zoumarou (UNSP)

13,576

0.55%

-

-

Rhétice Dagba

12,697

0.51%

-

-

Marie-Elise Gbèdo

8,952

0.36%

-

-

Léandre Djagoué (RDL-Vivoten)

8,565

0.35%

-

-

Lionel Adbo (CAD)

8,226

0.33%

-

-

Gatien Houngbédji (UDES)

8,092

0.33%

-

-

Olofindji Akandé

6,258

0.25%

-

-

Sadikou Alao (ANAD)

6,223

0.25%

-

-

François Kouyami

5,414

0.22%

-

-

*Both Nicéphore Soglo and Adrien Houngbédji boycotted the second
round of the election citing electoral irregularities.

30 March 2003 National Assembly Election

Registered Voters

3,084,422

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

1,724,093 (55.9%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

237,819

Total Valid Votes

1,486,274

Party/[Coalition]

Number of Seats (83)

Presidential Movement [MP]

52

Union for the Benin of the Future (UBF)

31

African Movement for Democracy and Progress (MADEP)

9

Key Force (FC)

5

Movement for Development by the Culture-Salute Party-Congress
of People for Progress Alliance [Alliance MDC-PS-CPP]

2

Impulse for Progress and Democracy (IPD)

2

Alliance of Progress Forces (AFP)

1

Movement for Development and Solidarity (MDS)

1

Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP)

1

Opposition

31

Renaissance Party of Benin (RB)

15

Democratic Renewal Party (PRD)

11

Star Alliance [AE]

3

The New Alliance [LNA]

2

March 2006 Presidential Election

First Round (5 March 2006)*

Registered Voters

3,917,865

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

3,200,944 (81.7%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

186,777

Total Valid Votes

3,014,167

Second Round (19 March 2006)**

Registered Voters

3,919,550

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

2,725,634 (69.5%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

69,564

Total Valid Votes

2,656,070

Candidate (Party)
[Coalition]

First Round

Second Round

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Yayi Boni

1,074,308

35.78%

1,979,305

74.60%

Adrien Houngbédji (PRD)

727,239

24.22%

673,937

25.40%

Bruno Amoussou (PSD) [ABN]

489,122

16.29%

-

-

Léhadi Soglo (RB)

253,478

8.44%

-

-

Antoine Kolawolé Idji (MADEP)

97,595

3.25%

-

-

Lazare Sèhouéto (MAP)

61,195

2.04%

-

-

Sévérin Adjovi (RDL-Vivoten)

53,304

1.78%

-

-

Antoine Dayori (FE)

37,436

1.25%

-

-

Kamarou Fassassi (PRD-NG)

29,494

0.98%

-

-

Janvier Yahouédéhou

23,054

0.77%

-

-

Luc Gnacadja (ENVOL)

20,269

0.68%

-

-

Daniel Tawéma (FARD-Alafia)

18,125

0.60%

-

-

Ibrahima Idrissou (RUND)

18,106

0.60%

-

-

Richard Sènou

15,672

0.52%

-

-

Soulé Dankoro (PDB)

9,929

0.33%

-

-

Marie-Elise Gbèdo

9,815

0.33%

-

-

Célestine Zanou

9,474

0.32%

-

-

Lionel Agbo (CAD)

9,026

0.30%

-

-

Zul Kifl Salami

8,538

0.28%

-

-

Richard Adjaho

7,448

0.25%

-

-

Gatien Houngbédji (UDES)

6,544

0.22%

-

-

Adolphe Djimon Hodonou

6,512

0.22%

-

-

Galiou Soglo

5,243

0.17%

-

-

Léandre Djagoué (RDL-Hêviosso)

4,665

0.15%

-

-

Marcel Gbaguidi

3,479

0.12%

-

-

Raphiou Toukourou

3,419

0.11%

-

-

*Official results published by the Constitutional Court state that 3,014,167 valid votes were cast, but the distribution
of votes among candidates totals 3,002,489 (a difference of 11,678 votes). Percentage figures in the table are based on the
latter number of valid votes cast.

**Official results published by the Constitutional Court state that 2,656,070 valid votes were cast, but the distribution
of votes among candidates totals 2,653,242 (a difference of 2,828 votes). Percentage figures in the table are based
on the latter number of valid votes cast.

31 March 2007 National Assembly Election

Registered Voters

3,900,000 (approx.)

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

Not Available (approx. 59%)

Party/[Coalition]

Number of Seats (83)

Cauri Forces for an Emerging Benin
(FCBE)

35

Alliance for a Dynamic Democracy
[ADD]

20

Democratic Renewal Party (PRD)

10

Key Force (FC)

4

Union for Relief (UPR)

3

National Union for Democracy and
Progress (UNDP)

2

Hope Force (FE)

2

Coalition for an Emerging Benin
(CBE)

2

Renewal Alliance (AR)

2

Alliance of Progress Forces (AFP)

1

Party for Democracy and Social
Progress (PDPS)

1

Restore Hope (RE)

1

13 March 2011 Presidential Election

Registered Voters

3,668,558

Total Votes (Voter Turnout)

3,111,833 (84.8%)

Invalid/Blank Votes

139,388

Total Valid Votes

2,972,445

Candidate (Party) [Coalition]

Number of Votes

% of Votes

Yayi Boni

1,579,550

53.14%

Adrien Houngbédji (PRD) [UN]

1,059,396

35.64%

Abdoulaye Bio Tchané

182,484

6.14%

Issa Salifou (UPR)

37,219

1.25%

Christian Lagnidé

19,221

0.65%

Janvier Yahouédéhou (RP)

16,591

0.56%

Jean Yves Sinzogan

13,561

0.46%

Marie-Elise Gbèdo

12,017

0.40%

Victor Topanou (PUR)

11,516

0.39%

Kessilé Tchalla

9,469

0.32%

Cyr M'Po Kouagou

9,285

0.31%

Antoine Dayori (FE)

8,426

0.28%

Salomon Joseph Biokou

7,893

0.27%

Joachim Dahissiho

5,817

0.20%

Note: The political party affiliations of certain candidates
has proven difficult to determine.